Killing Quotes - Page 7

• Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

  Michael Scott

  Ideas, Personality, Together

  Source: emunderwood.com

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• The [Libyan] rebels this week kind of hinted to the United States that they could use a little help. Right. Like, America would just blunder around the Middle East killing people without all the facts. That doesn't sound like the America I know.

  Bill Maher

  America, People, Sound

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• War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  War, Soldier, Individual

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• The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Stupidity, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

  Marya Mannes

  Experts, Television, Radio

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• [I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Powerful, Fantasy

  Anne Sexton, Webster's II Dictionaries, Lois Ames (1979). “Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters”, Mariner Books

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• What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

  Helen Keller

  Men, Twenties, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.69, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Statistically, skinny women die younger than fat women. Why? Because fat women are killing them.

  Joy Behar

  Weight, Skinny, Fats

  Joy Behar (1999). “Joy Shtick or What is the Existential Vacuum and Does it Come with Attachments”, Hyperion

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• Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our reality may seem degraded to posturing patriotism and self-righteous brutality, imaginative literature continues to question what heroism is, to examine the roots of power, and to offer moral alternatives. Imagination is the instrument of ethics. There are many metaphors besides battle, many choices besides war, and most ways of doing good do not, in fact, involve killing anybody. Fanstasy is good at thinking about those other ways.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Real, War, Thinking

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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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• The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

  Walter Benjamin

  Criminals, Moral, Capital Punishment

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

  Marguerite Duras

  Drinking, Thinking, Wanting To Die

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Men, Games

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• Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Animal, Mourning

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• I don't want to get away with murder! I'd have to live with that for the rest of my life. I would never want to live with killing somebody.

  Andy Biersack

  Want, Murder, Get Away

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• If you take a look at Afghan history, usually they have united to defend against an outside enemy, and as soon as that's accomplished, they turn and start killing each other. This internal instability is a constant invitation to outside forces to come in. I have to think that after the awful years of the Taliban, most Afghans would want to remain at peace, and get the benefits of the new freedom they've found. But I can't be sure that old habits won't reassert themselves.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  Thinking, Years, Old Habits

  "Lawrence Eagleburger: Not removing Saddam Hussein 'probably a mistake'". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 21, 2001.

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• You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Brother, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.33, Hueber Verlag

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• Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

  Wesley J. Smith

  Self, Suffering, Dying

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• I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I've written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it's important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It's killing new plays, demolishing one after another.

  Adam Rapp

  Thinking, Play, People

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• Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world.

  Michio Kushi

  Spiritual, Hero, Ddt

  "Spiritual Journey: Michio Kushi's Guide to Endless Self-Realization and Freedom". Book by Michio Kushi and Edward Esko (p. 55), December 1994.

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• The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.

  Ilana Mercer

  Gay, Wife, Effort

  "As She Lay Dying". www.wnd.com. March 26, 2005.

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• We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.

  Bashar al-Assad

  War, Language, Dangerous

  "Al-Assad touts plan for resolution, says enemies of Syria 'will go to hell'" by Holly Yan, Samira Said and Ali Younes, CNN, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2013.

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• It is time to remind Sharon that the star of David belongs to all Jews, not to his repulsive Government. His actions are staining the star of David with blood. The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, Mendelssohn and Mahler, Sergei Eisenstein and Billy Wilder, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon, a war criminal implicated in the murder of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila camps and now involved in killing Palestinians once again.

  Gerald Kaufman

  Stars, War, Government

  Speech to the House of Commons, April 2002.

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• Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

  Imre Kertész

  Long, Way, Drawbacks

  "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

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• We've seen in Europe after the recent terrorist attacks a certain retrogression in human rights. It depends on how threatened the Turks feel. For example, Turkey became much more tolerant towards Kurdish nationalists when the killing of Turkish soldiers stopped in southeastern Turkey and body bags stopped arriving. Now, since June there's been a revival of Kurdish attacks on Turkish troops - something like 150 people have been killed by terrorists supplied from and operating out of bases in northern Iraq. So Turks are feeling much less tolerant of Kurdish nationalism.

  Andrew Mango

  People, Feelings, Soldier

  "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.

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